Associate Professor
Lisa van Leent

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Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership


Personal details

Positions

Associate Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership

Keywords

Diverse sexualities, Primary, Pedagogy, Teacher education, Sex education, Digital literacies, English Curriculum

Research field

Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
  • Master of Learning Innovation (Queensland University of Technology)
  • Bachelor of Education (Queensland University of Technology)

Professional memberships and associations

Chair of the Queensland Queering Education Consultative Committee (QQECC)

Co-Lead QUT Queer Research Group

Co-Lead QUT Teachers and Teaching Research Group

Co-Chair QUT LGBTIQA+ Working Party

Executive: Queer Pride Staff Network

Chair: Compass Independent School

Membership of Learned Societies


  • Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA)

  • Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE): Genders and Sexualities Special Interest Group and Teachers' Work and Lives

Teaching

Lisa specialises in teaching in the following areas:

  • English and literacy education
  • Health education
  • Integrated curriculum
  • Sociology of education

Dr van Leent has been awarded a Teaching and Learning Award: Teaching Excellence (Early Career Award) from the Executive Dean, Faculty of Education and the Assistant Dean Teaching & Learning, Faculty of Education in 2014. Lisa is committed to providing real world learning experiences for pre-service teachers at QUT with coordinated visits to local schools. The real world experiences directly relate to the learning and teaching on campus and through blended learning opportunities.

Supervision:
Lisa is currently an associate supervisor for multiple higher degree research students including topics on queering Catholic education, queering social work, sex education evaluation, consent education, social justice in education, teacher attraction and retention.

Experience

Publications

QUT ePrints

For more publications by Lisa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/lisa.vanleent

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Resilience and Resistance: academic and student experiences in disrupting hetero-cis-normativity in social work and human services education in Australia
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Christine Morley
  • Examining the experiences of female leaders in prestigious all-boys schools in Australia
    Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton